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...February and March, when SARS began to spread outside of Guangdong province, where it first infected humans in late 2002, the Chinese central government made a series of politically motivated decisions that allowed the disease to gain deadly footholds in Beijing and elsewhere. Several Chinese officials have told me that a consideration in covering up?or, as one put it, "not mentioning"?the disease was the timing of the plenum of the National People's Congress, which convened in March. The country's top law-making body was then rubber-stamping the selection of a new President, and an unseemly...
...control measures. Guangzhou hospitals are the most experienced in the world at treating SARS. Guangzhou laboratories, however, are not up to the same standards, and that has led to suspected lab contamination as a possible cause for the positive tests that initially suggested this was a SARS case. Some Guangdong officials interpret as disrespectful the WHO's unwillingness to confirm their labs' findings. The WHO, which has no laboratories of its own and relies on collaborating institutions, has been unclear as to why it is delaying its diagnosis. It is, however, acting as if it is the only organization...
...estimates that one-third of China's measles and tuberculosis cases are never reported, in part because they disproportionately affect migrant workers. Without access to proper health care, these itinerant communities are virtual petri dishes of disease. Recent outbreaks of measles and Japanese encephalitis in the southern province of Guangdong?where SARS first appeared?are believed to have originated in this so-called "floating population." An article this year in the U.S.-based Journal of Infectious Diseases reported that the number of people getting measles in migrant populations was almost eight times higher than in resident communities, largely because migrants...
Originally from China’s Guangdong province, Buoy and Sen Lee had been in America for only seven years when they opened the doors of the Hong Kong Restaurant in 1954. According to their son and the current manager Paul Lee, the new Waltham residents opened their restaurant business on Mass. Ave. a few blocks down from a cousin’s laundry shop located on Broadway. The Kong was a single-story restaurant until 1970, when the Lees purchased the building’s remaining two floors to create a second dining room on the second floor...
...hate the kids who come trick-or-treating to our house, some of whom might almost be considered cute, even if most of the ones over 8 are running a protection racket. And I don't hate the candymakers, the greeting-card printers or the manufacturers--somewhere in Guangdong Province, China, I guess--who turn out all those disgusting plastic decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following...